Shallow Thought
It's pretty much impossible to take Jamie Kirchick seriously; nobody does.
But it is interesting, in a boring and predictable sort of way, that there is apparently a Big Liberal Media market for his silly pieces about the ineffectiveness of the left "netroots" at the same time as there is a Big Liberal Media market for even sillier pieces about how the right "netroots" is going to totally revitalize the Republican Party... by, uh, copying the methods of the left "netroots." Shazam!
And, sorry, but liberal blogs are far more influential right about about now than Marty Peretz or his sycophants. (And Kirchick is a Marty Peretz sycophant, which on my pop cultural conversion scale works out to something just below "Night Ranger groupie.") After all, Peretz is a Joe Lieberman sycophant. (That works out to something even harder to contemplate than "confurvatives.")
He seems to be driven with anger and vitriol because progressive men don't want to date him.
And since gay Repulicans are all in the closet, that pretty much limits his social life to men's rooms.
Enough to make anyone angry and vitriolic.
Posted by: flory | November 22, 2008 at 05:26 PM
The right wing blogs cannot succeed using the left's tactics for the fundamental reason that they are "top down" by design. Talk radio is the information disseminating tool that works best for them. No discussion, just listen to the blowhard and do what he says.
Posted by: The Raven | November 22, 2008 at 05:54 PM
Princess bride covers this pretty well with a little tinkering
Whoo-hoo-hoo , look who knows so much . It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY Gay * . There's a big difference between mostly Gay ** and all *** Gay . Mostly Gay **** is slightly Gay # . With all Gay *****, well, with all Gay ****** there's usually only one thing you can do .
*(dead) ** *** **** ***** ******(dead)
#(alive)
Posted by: theperilouspea | November 22, 2008 at 06:43 PM
Jeez after reading the downwithtyranny link it sort of takes the fun out of things . I feel queasy for lack of a better word .
Posted by: theperilouspea | November 22, 2008 at 07:09 PM
Absolutely the dullest tool in the wingnut tool box. Hardly even merits making fun of.
Posted by: DrDick | November 22, 2008 at 07:35 PM
Wow, I can't believe this shitty blog is still in business. I guess there's still an audience (albeit a small one) for rage and anger.
Posted by: JWF | November 22, 2008 at 10:04 PM
Speak of the confurvatives, poof, one shows up in your comments section. Such magic.
Posted by: Thers | November 22, 2008 at 10:20 PM
So, liberals are "angry," and conservatives are what? Satisfied? You're not pissed? Liar.
Yeah, we're pissed and so are you. The only difference is that we know who to be pissed at and what for. You think you do but you are about one-eighty off.
Posted by: bill | November 22, 2008 at 10:50 PM
By the way, Thers, you are a regular read. You've done far better than much of the competition.
Posted by: The Raven | November 22, 2008 at 11:23 PM
Jeez, Howie, tell us what you REALLY think!
Posted by: dave™© | November 23, 2008 at 01:16 AM
Like we take seriously a man who advertises his Roy Rogers line of clothing...
Posted by: actor212 | November 23, 2008 at 08:06 AM